Scenes 'n' Soundwaves: Rick & Lesa Tie Record for Fastest Climb to #1; Miley's 'Flowers" Still Tops Billboard (SNS week of 2/5/2023)

GETTING IT RIGHT: This week, the beach music duo of Rick Strickland and Lesa Hudson vault into the #1 position on the Scenes 'n' Soundwaves 100 with "Got it Right (The First Time)", accomplishing it in just three weeks. This ties the record for the quickest rise to the top, and the first song to do so since Adele's "Hello" accomplished the feat in November 2015. The only other songs to do the trick were "I Feel It In My Bones", a holiday entry by The Killers, in December 2012, and Fitz and the Tantrums' "Out of My League" in March 2013.

Rick and Lesa are the principals of The Rick Strickland Band, but this is their first duet recording since 2012. They, of course, have released solo outings regularly, and for Rick, this is his second straight #1 song, following "You're the One For Me". It's the first blog topper for Ms. Hudson, who peaked at #6 with "Sunny Days" and #11 with the long-running "Breathless", which is still on the chart after 35 weeks. The two artists have recently concluded their annual "Sunny Days" cruise on the "Wonder of the Seas" ship.

"Got It Right (The First Time)" also makes four of the last five number ones for Carolina beach music, and in which all four songs have featured either Strickland or Deb Browning. The song knocks Say She She's "Trouble" out of the top spot after three weeks in pole position. Stephen Sanchez's "Until I Found You" drops to #3 despite a big increase; the song moves up a position on the Billboard Hot 100 to #28. Rev. Bubba D. Liverance's "Ti Ta Ti Ta Ti Ta Ta" advances to #4, while Miley Cyrus' "Flowers" moves up to #5, and garners a third week at the top of the Hot 100.

"Got it Right" is actually the biggest mover on the chart, but since it already has the #1 designation, the Mover award goes to Ria Mae's "The Old Me". "Burning" by the Yeah Yeah Yeah's grabs the Impact award.

The Top Debut goes to "Eyez", by The Arcs, the side project by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, with what sounds like a female lead on this, but still a catchy song as per Auerbach's usual work. Another winner. It's the new album Electrophonic Chronic, which follows 2015's debut, Yours, Dreamily. That album yielded the top five "Outta My Mind". Meanwhile, Wet Leg follows "Wet Dream" with "Angelica"; first-time-to-the-blog, Jenna Ren, with "Fool's Gold", Carolina Dreamers follow their #1 "Hey Girl, Hey Boy" with the swing-filled "Sugar Pie Baby", Donna Missal is back with the lead single from her third effort, the Billie Eilish-like "Insecure"; Death Cab for Cutie's best-in-a-while "Pepper", Cigarettes After Sex, which had two blog top 10's in 2018, with "Pistol"; and The Driver Era with "Malibu" (not the Miley Cyrus song). The song is the duo's second; the first, "Low", reached #1 in 2019.

CORRECTIONS: Last week, I mixed up two of the "Carolina" beach music bands. Last week, the song "New Shoes, Let's Go Dancing" was attributed to the Carolina Dreamers on the SNS 100 when it should have been the Carolina Blue Dots. The chart has been corrected.

In my next full blog, I will discuss this year's nominees to the so-called Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. Also, Deb Browning's next single, "I Think I Found Forever" will drop March 9. That is sandwiched in between two Colorjoy songs. If you think this week's SNS 100 is competitive, just wait a few weeks!

Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100 Playlist

February 5, 2023

This Week	Last Week	ARTIST-Title	Weeks on List
1	5	NUMBER ONE: RICK STRICKLAND and LESA HUDSON "Got it Right (The First Time)" (Single Only)	3
2	1	Say She She - Trouble	12
3	2	Stephen Sanchez - Until I Found You	4
4	6	Rev. Bubba D. Liverance and the Cornhole Prophets - Ti Ta Ti Ta Ti Ta Ta	4
5	8	Miley Cyrus - Flowers	4
6	3	Local Natives - Just Before the Morning	10
7	7	Blake Shelton - No Body	16
8	10	Tennis - One Night With the Valet	6
9	9	Deb Browning and Six Piece Suits - It Don't Get Better Than This	14
10	4	King Tappa - 9 To 5	11
11	12	Sharon Van Etten - Mistakes	28
12	15	Danielle Ponder - The Only Way Out	9
13	11	Maneskin - The Loneliest	11
14	23	TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK: YEAH YEAH YEAHS "Burning" Album: Cool It Down	3
15	13	Jennifer Cintron - Run	17
16	14	The Weeknd - Die For You	14
17	29	MOVER OF THE WEEK: RIA MAE "The Old Me" Album: Therapy	4
18	19	Young the Giant - The Walk Home	9
19	16	Alvvays - Easy On Your Own	16
20	22	Lainey Wilson - Heart Like a Truck	9
21	21	Taylor Swift - Anti- Hero	12
22	20	Deb Browning - 3 More Minutes●	35
23	18	Giant Rooks - Morning Blue	10
24	17	Rick Strickland - You're the One For Me	15
25	25	Rihanna - Lift Me Up	12
26	24	Steve Lacy - Bad Habit	19
27	28	Carolina Dreamers - Hey Girl Hey Boy	18
28	36	Carly Pearce - What He Didn't Do	4
29	34	Dave Guetta and Bebe Rexha - I'm Good (Blue)	8
30	42	The Heavy Heavy - Miles and Miles	3
31	31	Carolina Coast Band ft Rhonda McDaniel - The Thing About You●	29
32	32	Keith Urban - Texas Time	12
33	27	Juliet Callahan - Burning	21
34	41	Juliet Callahan - Spotlight	4
35	30	Santigold - Shake	9
36	33	Starbuck -You're the Reason	18
37	26	Wet Leg - Wet Dream	14
38	44	K.Flay - It's Been So Long	4
39	37	Blink-182 - Edging	10
40	35	Elton John and Britney Spears -Hold Me Closer	17
41	53	Gary Lowder and Smokin' Hot - Don't Let Her Go	2
42	47	Rosa Linn - Snap	4
43	57	Avril Lavigne ft. YUNGBLUD - I'm A Mess	2
44	40	Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Drummer	6
45	43	Carolina Blue Dots - Cruzin' Down the Boulevard●	21
46	60	Tim Izzard - Walk the Walk	2
47	---	TOP DEBUT: THE ARCS "Eyez" Album: Electrophonic Chronic	1
48	50	Harry Styles - As It Was●	39
49	54	The Moss - Insomnia	4
50	55	Ava Max - Million Dollar Baby	3
51	59	Meghan Trainor - Made You Look	3
52	39	beabadoobee - 10:36	8
53	72	Pink - Never Not Gonna Dance Again	10
54	---	Wet Leg - Angelica	1
55	62	I-42 Band - Atlantic Beach Days	2
56	45	Mitski - Should've Been Me	13
57	46	Randy Clay Band - Carolina Night	17
58	38	Caroline Rose - Love/Lover/Friend	8
59	64	Lady Gaga- Bloody Mary	3
60	----	Jenna Ren - Fools Gold	1
61	49	Doyle Wood and Sylvia Johns Ritchie - Not Tonight (I Have a Heartache)	19
62	51	Taylor Swift ft. Lana Del Rey - Snow on the Beach	8
63	61	The Heaterz - Don't Fault Me Baby	3
64	68	Sylvia Johns Ritchie - Lovin' My Blues Away	2
65	69	Carolina Blue Dots - New Shoes, Let's Go Dancing	2
66	52	Sam Hunt - 23	34
67	63	Rubblebucket - Geometry	4
68	66	Cole Swindell - She Had Me at Heads Carolina	15
69	67	Selena Gomez - My Mind and Me	3
70	48	Ryan Chatelain - Static	17
71	---	Donna Missal - Insecure	1
72	---	Death Cab For Cutie - Pepper	1
73	70	Luke Combs - The Kind of Love We Make	14
74	73	Hozier - Swan Upon Leda	2
75	71	Beyonce - Cuff It	3
76	---	Cigarettes After Sex - Pistol	1
77	56	The Black Keys - It Ain't Over●	28
78		Carolina Dreamers - Sugar Pie Baby	1
79	75	Dijon - Many Times	2
80	78	Phoenix - Winter Solstice	2
81	65	Scooter Lee - Shama Lama Ding Dong	14
82	58	Lovelytheband - Sail Away	17
83	---	The Driver Era - Malibu	1
84	86	OneRepublic - I Ain't Worried	21
85	87	Wayne Free - Tequila On Ice	30
86	76	Lesa Hudson - Breathless●	35
87	77	Steve Shouse - Back to 69	18
88	74	Deb Browning - Here Comes Amazon	10
89	79	Jim Quick and Coastline - Sadie Mae	16
90	80	The Holiday Band - Big Bad Batch of the Blues	11
91	81	Panic! At the Disco - Don't Let the Light Go Out	17
92	82	Fitz and the Tantrums - Moneymaker	16
93	83	Tim Izzard - The Night I Played Ziggy's Guitar	28
94	84	Elizabeth Chan - Merry Merry	9
95	85	Too Much Sylvia - It Still is Christmas	5
96	88	Deb Browning - All Over the World	8
97	89	Lindsey Sterling - Joy to the World	8
98	90	Lauren Spencer Smith - Single on the 25th	7
99	91	Øff Guard - October	11
100	93	David F. Porfirio - Random Stranger	16